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JURIST LEGAL NEWS AND RESEARCH SERVICES INC

JURIST LEGAL NEWS AND RESEARCH SERVICES INC (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $114 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($114). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2026
$154k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$114
Net assets
$41k
1/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 0%
01What it does

What Jurist Legal News and Research Services Inc does

Mission

To advance the rule of law by raising public awareness

As stated on its FY2026 Form 990.

Program

  1. Jurist provides continuous legal news, documentation and commentary via its website. It has reached an audience of over 100,000 us and international readers per month. Expenses were for the production, distirbution and promotion of this service.

    $140,052 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2026 Form 990. Program spending in total: $140,052.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($199k) Expenses 100 ($203k) Net assets 100 ($6k)2018 Revenue 108 ($215k) Expenses 105 ($212k) Net assets 139 ($9k)2019 Revenue 108 ($215k) Expenses 101 ($205k) Net assets 298 ($19k)2020 Revenue 110 ($219k) Expenses 109 ($220k) Net assets 279 ($18k)2021 Revenue 135 ($270k) Expenses 124 ($250k) Net assets 585 ($37k)2022 Revenue 42 ($83k) Expenses 29 ($59k) Net assets 885 ($56k)2023 Revenue 44 ($88k) Expenses 51 ($103k) Net assets 619 ($39k)2024 Revenue 51 ($101k) Expenses 54 ($109k) Net assets 494 ($31k)2025 Revenue 61 ($122k) Expenses 64 ($129k) Net assets 395 ($25k)2026 Revenue 77 ($154k) Expenses 69 ($140k) Net assets 646 ($41k)
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Revenue (77)Expenses (69)Net assets (646)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $38k to $61k (+63%).

$6k
$9k
$19k
$18k
$38k
$61k
$40k
$32k
$28k
$41k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

How it's funded, over time

Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
2026
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

99% of JURIST LEGAL NEWS AND RESEARCH SERVICES INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (94% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 2,802 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 10 reported years ran a deficit.

−$3k
’17
$2k
’18
$10k
’19
−$1k
’20
$19k
’21
$24k
’22
−$15k
’23
−$8k
’24
−$7k
’25
$14k
’26
1.9
months of
reserve

Leadership and staff

The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.

Board chair

Toni R Locy

Board chairman

As listed on its FY2026 Form 990.

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Listed1191614151616101614
Joined·+1+7+0+2+3+0+2+8+0
No longer listed·302120822
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $44 → $24.

Funder
'20
'21
'22
'23
total
funders
1
1
1
1

1 of 1 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

From the IRS filings of JURIST LEGAL NEWS AND RESEARCH SERVICES INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

Where its funders are

100% of JURIST LEGAL NEWS AND RESEARCH SERVICES INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $114 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

JURIST LEGAL NEWS AND RESEARCH SERVICES INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 71 crime & legal nonprofits its size.

Operating margin9% · above the median
Months of reserve1.9mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−3% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 71 crime & legal nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2026

Organizations like JURIST LEGAL NEWS AND RESEARCH SERVICES INC

Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Pennsylvania

Nationally

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

100% of spending goes to programs.

Program 100%Management 0%Fundraising 0%

Governance

13
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

99%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

PA

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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for JURIST LEGAL NEWS AND RESEARCH SERVICES INC: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.

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Questions and answers

Who funds JURIST LEGAL NEWS AND RESEARCH SERVICES INC?
JURIST LEGAL NEWS AND RESEARCH SERVICES INC (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $114 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($114). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does JURIST LEGAL NEWS AND RESEARCH SERVICES INC have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $114 in grants to JURIST LEGAL NEWS AND RESEARCH SERVICES INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of JURIST LEGAL NEWS AND RESEARCH SERVICES INC?
AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $114 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like JURIST LEGAL NEWS AND RESEARCH SERVICES INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2026 (financials across 2017–2026), and the filings of 1 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing